Corporate Internal Investigations
September 28, 2012
This is the last of a three-part series giving companies a step-by-step guide for planning and conducting sensitive internal investigations into potential wrongdoing.
Media & Communications: Become the Newsroom
September 27, 2012
Firms and lawyers have the opportunity to drive and shape editorial content as never before. But few of them fully understand the opportunity, or possess the necessary internal capacity to produce high-quality editorial content.
A Review of Legal Obligations Reps Owe Artists
September 27, 2012
In a dispute between the artist and a representative, the central issue typically revolves around the extent and nature of the legal duty owed to the artist by the particular representative, and whether that duty has been breached. In complicating instances, representatives may perform multiple functions and wear more than one hat.
Terrorism and the Pollution Exclusion
September 27, 2012
This article considers whether alleged personal injuries based on exposure to contaminants disbursed because of a terrorist attack are excluded from coverage by the pollution exclusion commonly found in most insurance policies.
No Fair Use in Mag's Publication of Marriage Photos of Singer
August 30, 2012
To Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown, the appeal in copyright case <i>Monge v. Maya Magazines</i> read "like a telenovela, a Spanish soap opera." McKeown wrote that the Spanish-language gossip magazine <i>TVNotas</i> violated the copyright of Noelia Lorenzo Monge, a Puerto Rican pop singer known mostly by her first name, and her husband, Jorge Reynoso, a music producer, by publishing private wedding photographs that apparently had been stolen from them.
China Opportunities for U.S. Entertainment Industry Still Saddled with Government and 'Copycat' Hurdles
August 30, 2012
<i>Entertainment Law & Finance</i> Editor-in-Chief Stan Soocher traveled to China over the summer to teach the course 'American Music Goes to Court' at the International College of Beijing. He reports here, in a two-part series, on the state of entertainment industry issues in China, as U.S. companies try to expand their reach there. Part One covers the current state of copyright law in China and discusses TV and film concerns.
The New York Convention for the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
July 30, 2012
Cross-border equipment lessors and their financiers often prefer binding arbitration clauses in their lease agreements on the assumption that, under the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, an arbitral award granted, for example, in the United States would be simple and quick to enforce in the foreign jurisdiction of the lessee. This, however, is not necessarily the case.
